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The undaunted and self-denied manner in which he sacrificed himself to redeem his error, and accomplish my escape from the Tolbooth Church, you must have heard of all Scotland rang with it. It was a gallant and extraordinary deed All men spoke of it all men, even those who most condemned the habits and crimes of this self-devoted man, praised the heroism of his friendship.
I became in some degree reconciled to the thought of exclusion from the society of women by seeing around me so many who were self-devoted to celibacy.
The tramp of solid legions makes him feel a soldier, not a sneaking conspirator. He is no more a guerilla of the plains, or a fugitive deserter of his adopted State. The capture of New Orleans seals the Mississippi. The Confederacy is cut in twain. It is positive now, the only help from the golden West will be the arrival of parties of self-devoted men like himself.
From his youth upwards he had followed the glorious profession of Patriot. Wherever the people of the Southern New World rose and declared their independence and, in my time, that fervent population did nothing else there was the Doctor self-devoted on the altar of his adopted country.
The country priests were more self-devoted than the bishops who ruled over them; the poorer nobles were more public-spirited and more moral than the favored nobility of the court; the citizens of the Third Estate conducted their private business more honorably than the administration conducted the business of the country.
Frank, generous, self-devoted, and withal accustomed to get most things wrong-end-foremost, he usually threw away twice the same labour, in effecting a given purpose, that was expended by the Yankee; doing the thing worse, too, besides losing twice the time. He never paused to think of this, however.
But the fortune of the paynim, rather than the virgin knight, has fallen to all the members of the self-devoted band, and we know little more of the man Shakespeare than was known by our great-grandfathers.
The undaunted and self-denied manner in which he sacrificed himself to redeem his error, and accomplish my escape from the Tolbooth Church, you must have heard of all Scotland rang with it. It was a gallant and extraordinary deed All men spoke of it all men, even those who most condemned the habits and crimes of this self-devoted man, praised the heroism of his friendship.
The city fell through revolt of the people and defection of the King's troops rather than by the assaults of Garibaldi's men, "twenty thousand soldiers of despotism" capitulating "before a handful of citizens" self-devoted in the cause of freedom.
Sensitive, reserved, and at times even timid, on points that did not call for the exercise of higher qualities, she was firm in her principles, constant as she was fond in her affections, and self-devoted when duty and inclination united to induce the concession, to a degree that placed the idea of sacrifice out of the question.
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